Beyond Evolutionary Psychology

Beyond Evolutionary Psychology
Title Beyond Evolutionary Psychology PDF eBook
Author George Ellis
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 231
Release 2018
Genre Psychology
ISBN 1107053684

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This book presents a compelling unifying theory of which aspects of the brain are innate and which are not.

Adapting Minds

Adapting Minds
Title Adapting Minds PDF eBook
Author David J. Buller
Publisher MIT Press
Pages 582
Release 2006-02-17
Genre Psychology
ISBN 9780262261821

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Was human nature designed by natural selection in the Pleistocene epoch? The dominant view in evolutionary psychology holds that it was—that our psychological adaptations were designed tens of thousands of years ago to solve problems faced by our hunter-gatherer ancestors. In this provocative and lively book, David Buller examines in detail the major claims of evolutionary psychology—the paradigm popularized by Steven Pinker in The Blank Slate and by David Buss in The Evolution of Desire—and rejects them all. This does not mean that we cannot apply evolutionary theory to human psychology, says Buller, but that the conventional wisdom in evolutionary psychology is misguided. Evolutionary psychology employs a kind of reverse engineering to explain the evolved design of the mind, figuring out the adaptive problems our ancestors faced and then inferring the psychological adaptations that evolved to solve them. In the carefully argued central chapters of Adapting Minds, Buller scrutinizes several of evolutionary psychology's most highly publicized "discoveries," including "discriminative parental solicitude" (the idea that stepparents abuse their stepchildren at a higher rate than genetic parents abuse their biological children). Drawing on a wide range of empirical research, including his own large-scale study of child abuse, he shows that none is actually supported by the evidence. Buller argues that our minds are not adapted to the Pleistocene, but, like the immune system, are continually adapting, over both evolutionary time and individual lifetimes. We must move beyond the reigning orthodoxy of evolutionary psychology to reach an accurate understanding of how human psychology is influenced by evolution. When we do, Buller claims, we will abandon not only the quest for human nature but the very idea of human nature itself.

Beyond Revenge

Beyond Revenge
Title Beyond Revenge PDF eBook
Author Michael McCullough
Publisher John Wiley & Sons
Pages 323
Release 2008-03-31
Genre Psychology
ISBN 9780470262153

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Why is revenge such a pervasive and destructive problem? How can we create a future in which revenge is less common and forgiveness is more common? Psychologist Michael McCullough argues that the key to a more forgiving, less vengeful world is to understand the evolutionary forces that gave rise to these intimately human instincts and the social forces that activate them in human minds today. Drawing on exciting breakthroughs from the social and biological sciences, McCullough dispenses surprising and practical advice for making the world a more forgiving place. Michael E. McCullough (Miami, Florida), an internationally recognized expert on forgiveness and revenge, is a professor of psychology at the University of Miami in Coral Gables, Florida, where he directs the Laboratory for Social and Clinical Psychology.

Evolutionary Psychology

Evolutionary Psychology
Title Evolutionary Psychology PDF eBook
Author Lance Workman
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 487
Release 2008-06-19
Genre Psychology
ISBN 0521888360

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Highly acclaimed, stand-alone textbook essential for every undergraduate studying introductory evolutionary psychology.

Evolutionary Psychology

Evolutionary Psychology
Title Evolutionary Psychology PDF eBook
Author David Buss
Publisher Psychology Press
Pages 497
Release 2015-10-02
Genre Psychology
ISBN 1317345746

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This book examines human psychology and behavior through the lens of modern evolutionary psychology. Evolutionary Psychology: The Ne w Science of the Mind, 5/e provides students with the conceptual tools of evolutionary psychology, and applies them to empirical research on the human mind. Content topics are logically arrayed, starting with challenges of survival, mating, parenting, and kinship; and then progressing to challenges of group living, including cooperation, aggression, sexual conflict, and status, prestige, and social hierarchies. Students gain a deep understanding of applying evolutionary psychology to their own lives and all the people they interact with.

Human Evolution Beyond Biology and Culture

Human Evolution Beyond Biology and Culture
Title Human Evolution Beyond Biology and Culture PDF eBook
Author Jeroen C. J. M. van den Bergh
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 575
Release 2018-10-18
Genre Nature
ISBN 1108470971

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A complete account of evolutionary thought in the social, environmental and policy sciences, creating bridges with biology.

Moving Beyond Self-Interest

Moving Beyond Self-Interest
Title Moving Beyond Self-Interest PDF eBook
Author Stephanie L. Brown
Publisher Oxford University Press
Pages 320
Release 2011-10-26
Genre Psychology
ISBN 0195388100

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Moving Beyond Self-Interest is an interdisciplinary volume that discusses cutting-edge developments in the science of caring for and helping others. In Part I, contributors raise foundational issues related to human caregiving. They present new theories and data to show how natural selection might have shaped a genuinely altruistic drive to benefit others, how this drive intersects with the attachment and caregiving systems, and how it emerges from a broader social engagement system made possible by symbiotic regulation of autonomic physiological states. In Part II, contributors propose a new neurophysiological model of the human caregiving system and present arguments and evidence to show how mammalian neural circuitry that supports parenting might be recruited to direct human cooperation and competition, human empathy, and parental and romantic love. Part III is devoted to the psychology of human caregiving. Some contributors in this section show how an evolutionary perspective helps us better understand parental investment in and empathic concern for children at risk for, or suffering from, various health, behavioral, and cognitive problems. Other contributors identify circumstances that differentially predict caregiver benefits and costs, and raise the question of whether extreme levels of compassion are actually pathological. The section concludes with a discussion of semantic and conceptual obstacles to the scientific investigation of caregiving. Part IV focuses on possible interfaces between new models of caregiving motivation and economics, political science, and social policy development. In this section, contributors show how the new theory and research discussed in this volume can inform our understanding of economic utility, policies for delivering social services (such as health care and education), and hypotheses concerning the origins and development of human society, including some of its more problematic features of nationalism, conflict, and war. The chapters in this volume help readers appreciate the human capacity for engaging in altruistic acts, on both a small and large scale.